Re: [gentoo-dev] syslog-ng

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:38, Ed Grimm wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > just thought I should mention this.
> >
> > if you setup a syslog-ng server that binds to an interface and listens
> > to collect incoming logs, at the next reboot it will fail to do so. I
> > believe this issue is due to the order of execution of the init.d
> > initialization scripts, since syslog-ng is started before the net.ethX
> > scripts are executed. The exim would not start following the failure
> > of the syslog-ng.
>
> My experience is, this is actually unpredictable - net.ethX does not
> provide 'net', and so whether syslog-ng (or, for that matter, any other
> syslog service) starts up before or after the network is established is
> anyone's guess.  Given the total number of places it can start up on a
> typical system, I would guess that it probably usually starts after the
> network has initialized.

Syslog-ng should, like iptables, bind to an interface even if it is not up. 
There are reasons to start the logger as soon as possible. Alternatively you 
could signal syslog-ng to reload itself again just before exim loads.

Paul

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